Super productive Sunday
We each attended some interesting panels today. Probably the most controversial of which was Facebook's Mark Zuckerber keynote. As you may know, Mark is pretty shy dude, and not famous for his public speaking skills. So to facilitate a better keynote, SXSW brought in Sarah Lacey, the author of a Newsweek cover article and an upcoming book on Mark, to interview him. (Clip above shows the scene, and Sarah's introdution.)
What started with a single heckler, turned into a full audience slam. Mostly against Sarah Lacey. In her defense, this is a tough crowd. Some of the most intelligent and internet savvy people in the world were in the room. You can read about some of the details on CNet.
The keynote was quickly heard around the world. What started as live chat and Twitter tweets from the ballroom quickly grew into blog posts, podcasts and more. Will surely be the buzz of the internet tomorrow morning.
Dave and I also attended a completely relevant panel on wireframes in the Web 2.0 world. Clearly, as online experiences continue to grow more intense and complicated, it's our job to keep planning, strategy and info architecture up to speed. Things are changing fast, and there's some exciting new methods for doing this well.
We're starting to recognize some SXSW faces, and making new interesting friends. Finding new technologies, new processes, and new partners. Today we made our first visit to the exhibit floor, and got a peak at some of the exhibitors showing. I had an interesting meeting with Ustream, about pushing the limits of streaming video. We're about to do something that hasn't been done very well on the internet this summer, and hope that they'll be an integral part of making that happen. Always pushing limits.
Tonight we're taking it easy. Less beer, no tattoos, and more work. We'll be catching up on things so that we can have an even more productive day tomorrow. That, and Rob's chest is probably still stinging from his Texas tattoo.
Be sure to check our individual Tumblr pages for all of the latest posts, notes from our sessions, and far more detail than we could spill here.
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